Dosan Bunsik (Dosan Park)

Bunsik is the Korean word for cheap, comforting snack food, the tteokbokki and gimbap that students eat after school, and Dosan Bunsik has been serving a polished version of it near Dosan Park since 2018. The room is full of retro touches, from old-fashioned tableware to water served in vintage juice bottles. Three dishes show up in almost every photo: a mound of tteokbokki buried under fried fish-cake strips, a thick pork cutlet sandwich in soft milk bread, and beef tartare gimbap served with an egg yolk for dipping. Fried sundae (Korean blood sausage), mala-spiced gimmari (fried seaweed rolls) and myeongnan egg rice round out the menu. Ordering is done by scanning a QR code at your table. It is one of the more affordable sit-down meals in this upscale neighborhood, and the dishes come out quickly, so lines tend to move.